Adjustable abutment for automobile frame presses



p i 3, 1 1 LE ROY v. JACOBSEN ETAL 2,547,757

ADJUSTABLE ABUTMENT FOR AUTOMOBILE FRAME PRESSES File d Nov. 19. 1948 INVENTOR. L. dncossan y 6.6. (IOSLHIE Patented Apr. 3, 1951 ADJUSTABLE ABUTMENT FOR AUTOMOBILE FRAME PRESSES Le Roy V. Jacobson, Durant, Iowa, and Gilbert G. Gosline, Rock Island, 111., assignors to Bee-Line Company, Davenport, Iowa, a copartnership Application November 19, 1918, Serial No. 61,102

3 Claims.

Our present invention relates to means for use in operating upon automobile vehicle frames for straightening the frame members or correcting defects of form, due, for example, to accidents. Generally speaking, devices for this purpose operate in a vertical or transverse direction, but not diagonally. Oftentimes, however, it is necessary that force be applied in a diagonal direction to make needed corrections of form. It is therefore an object of our invention to provide a mechanism by means of which pressure may be applied to the motor vehicle frame in a horizontal direction, diagonally of the press, rather than merely transversely or longitudinally of the frame. Our invention comprises such further objects, advantages, and capabilities as will hereafter appear and as are inherent in the construction disclosed herein.

In the drawings annexed hereto and forming a part hereof,

Fig. 1 represents a fragmentary plan view of a press with a pair of our new constructions applied to the abutment-carrying frame members of the press;

Fig. 2 represents a fragmentary elevational View of one of the frame members of the press with one of our abutment units secured thereto and shown in side elevation;

Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of a clevislike clamping member to be attached to one of the side frame members of a press for holding an abutment member in place; and

Fig. 4 represents a perspective view of a pivot member for use in combination with the structure of Fig. 3. 1

Reference will now be made in greater detail ,to the annexed drawings for a more complete description of this invention. The press is represented in Fig. 1 by a pair of frame members I, preferably of angular cross-section. The general nature of this press is indicated in Figs. 4 and 5 of Smith Patent No. 1,993,387, issued March 5, 1935, although we prefer that the press beams be rectangular in cross-section, since the holding means 2 will be better held in position on an angular structure than on a structure which is circular in cross-section. The holding means 2 is in the form, roughly, of a clevis which is wide in the middle portion 3 and provided with a hole 4 for the reception of a pivot member 5. This pivot member has a head 6 which bears against the inside face of the clevis member. The legs 7 of the pivot are inserted through the hole a, and the member 2 is then made to straddle the beam or frame member I. A tapered pin 8 is then inserted through holes 9 and driven in tightly. This pulls the head 6 of the pivot member 5 down into tight engagement with the upper face of the beam I, holding the clevis member 2 tightly in place.

As shown in Fig. 2, an abutment member It), provided with a plurality of holes H, is inserted between the legs 1 of the pivot member, and a. pivot pin I4 is passed through the holes I2 to hold the abutment member I0 in place. A suitable blocking member [3 may be placed on the beam I to hold the abutment H! parallel to the beam. Pivot pin It connects the members 5 and I0, pivotally, and the abutment member IE] may be used to turn the pivot pin 5 in the hole 4 so as to arrange the abutment member In in any desired position with relation to the frame members l.

The member H] has an upstanding abutment l5 against which a jack I6 may push when force is being applied in a horizontal direction. It will be understood that the abutment member It may be turned so that the force may be exerted transversely of the vehicle frame member, or diagonally thereto, as desired. It is believed that the use of this construction in the application of force to vehicle frame members will be obvious from the foregoing description taken in conjunction with the annexed drawings and ,that it will not be necessary to show the jack it in the act of exerting pressure on a frame member.

It is of course understood that various changes in the form and detail of construction maybe made without departing from the spirit of this invention or the scope of the appended claims.

Having now described our invention, we claim:

1. In a structure for the purpose indicated, making use of a pair of strain-resisting, elongated units; the combination of a clevis-like attaching means having a pivot-receiving opening in its central part and a pair of elongated openings in the end portions of the arms of said attaching means, a pivot member in the pivot-receiving opening turnable to various positions about the axis of the pivot member, and an abutment member pivotally connected to the pivot member to turn about an axis making substantially a right angle with relation to the first pivot member.

2. In a press for working on automotive vehicles; a pair of elongated, strain-resisting beams, angular incross-section, clevis-like attaching means for connection to said beams, tapered pins extending through the ends of said attaching means to fixedly attach the attaching means to the beams, said attaching means having a hole in its central part, a pivot member pivotally connected to said means for rotation in said hole, the axis of said pivot member extending in the same direction as the arms of the clevis-like attaching means, and abutment means pivotally mounted in said pivot member for turning movement in a plane at right angles to the axis of the pivot member.

3. A structure as defined by claim 2 in which an attaching means is attached to each of said beams, and each attaching means has a pivot member secured thereto and an abutment memher is pivotally mounted in each pivot member. LE ROY V. JACOBSEN. GILBERT G. GOSLINE.

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